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What sort of wicket are they playing on?

It looks ok.

The ball is not doing anything lethal.

No one can say the bounce or movement is uneven or over the top, and yet no one can make runs on it.

New Zealand couldn’t even bat out two sessions.

Australia might not last much more.

Other than Clarke, Katich and Flynn no one has spent any real time on it.

The journalists are already starting their “no one can play on proper pitch campaigns”, and who can blame them.

Anyone who has seen this test will know that this is not an old fashioned green top.

It’s just that modern batsmen are preserved in cling wrap by never having to play on pitches with life.

This pitch looks like a good one.

Katich seems to have worked it out, and he isn’t in the top 8 most talented batsmen in this match.

The Krab is a street fighter, no doubt, sure I bag him a lot, but most of that is technique based and to do with leaving his home state to captain another.

But the man is a low down and dirty mother fucker, and he seems to have worked this pitch out.

Flynn is in the Katich mould, I have compared him to Langer before, he is a tough sonofabitch.

Not a great deal of talent there, and at times the attacking instincts of an amish assassin, but he is gritty.

So while the pretty boys with their gold cased averages and reputations falter, the ugly bastards are stepping up.

That used to be what happened on green tops, not wickets with a little Winslet curve to them.

And none of this explains Michael Clarke’s 98.

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